he s out there with the pressers you see the things, we ve talked about what we ve done and aca and all of these other things it s almost obligatory. it s not like he s hugo chavez in venezuela. he actually had a call-in show and people would call in and say i can t afford a hog for my daughter s wedding. and he would turn to the producer and say send this man five hogs for his daughter s wedding. biden can t help that. and that s a constant time stamp, a constant reminder for every driver, every day you go out, $4.25 last week. you member it was $3.40 a year ago. and faintly $2.50 under trump even though it s not an apples to apples thing. this is what biden is up against constantly. part of the issue, what biden says is we had covid.
nations. like russia. like russia. 81% in 2021. fastest recovery after the 1973 arab oil embargo. we had a gas study and they said they were headed to $4 national gas price by memorial day. this is what americans have to endure, higher gas prices? that s right. the national average is hitting $3.40 a gallon today. that s up 6 cents. prices at the pump down to $3.28 a gallon late last year. that was because of the u.s. led intervention. the biden administration announced the largest release of the strategic oil preserve. that s just 12 hours of demand. this was more than we are. fast forward two cents a month.
rescue of american drivers at this point. they said they will stick with their plans and are not going to do anything more aggressive than that. some speculation on wall street in recent days that they might step in here. oil prices are near seven-year highs. they ve bounced back from the more recent declines and this means higher prices at the pump which moves with a lag to oil prices. $3.40 a gallon today. almost $1 from a year ago. that could happen at any point. there are positives in the economy. the high cost of living and omicron are drowning the positives out. you have been all over the highs, the lows, the good, the
title with a win in dublin. 0n the face of it that seems unlikely, simply because they are missing so many players because of injury, but as the rehearsals get under way here the expectation of a full house, it is all about the occasion. do you rise to it or do you think? by this evening in edinburgh and in dublin, we will know. we evening in edinburgh and in dublin, we will know- we will know. we certainly will, joe. thank we will know. we certainly will, joe. thank yon you can see more on all of today s stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at 3.40 bye for now. mixed weather fortunes today on the south east staying dry, and after a sunny start, the weather will turn a bit claudia but we have rain
because of steps the president has taken peer they are because president putin is you don t like invading ukraine. pete: here to wait and come up fox news contributor fox news contributor and kings college of manhattan executive vice president and associate of business and former neighbor of mine, all around good guy, brian brandenberg. this is all about work. it is what president biden is not doing right now. he uses to amp up supply in america and that could make a big difference and the price is pure just to be clear $3.40 a gallon at the end of january, $3.84 and if we go to $4 next week that is $600, $700 additional cost for an average family over the course of a year. you think about families and how slim of a march and they are on right now, $600, $700 that is how painful this could get. pete: the price has have gone up and now they are going up further, all of this has to do with the war when obviously there is a lot going on at